Are your expectations getting in the way of your travel plans?

If we go with no expectation, we arrive with the capacity to be surprised, and if you're

not going to be surprised, why travel at all?

Eric Winner suggests that it may be time to reconsider places that you might have thought

were too boring for a vacation.

He explains how that works in a few minutes.

John Branch's articles on climbers and hunters, Olympic racers and runners have won him nearly

every major journalism award.

He shares some of his favorites reporting from the backroads of sports.

As a journalist, I'm a proxy for the reader.

I'm the one who gets to go to these cool places and my job is to try to bring the reader

along.

And Dion Circe took her family to live in Dakar, Senegal, when she got a promotion

to work in West Africa.

She says you'll like its cool music and surf scene, and it's not really so far away.

It's as close to fly to Paris from New York as it is to fly to Dakar.

From along for the hour ahead, it's traveled with Rick Steves.

What would it be like to take on an overseas job sight unseen in a country you've never

visited?

New York Times journalist, Dion Circe, tells us how her family made their home in Dakar

Senegal for a few years, and why you might like to visit there too.

And journalist, John Branch, has traveled far to write about ordinary people doing extra

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